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Apple finally has cemented its "good," "better," and "best" tiers for its MacBook models.
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It's running on a mobile chip, but it's the screen and sound that may be MacBook Neo's best qualities.
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Google adds Gemini-powered Live Search to Home, letting users ask AI about live camera feeds while rolling out Nest lock controls, new automations, and mesh updates.
The post Google Home Gets ‘Live Search,' Letting Gemini Analyze Your Cameras Live appeared first on eWEEK.
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It's the same iPad Airs as before, but with faster performance.
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Chris Titus Tech's Windows Utility (WinUtil) is a versatile PowerShell script that streamlines the management of your operating system. As a lightweight tool, it enables users to efficiently handle a variety of system settings and tweaks and to install multiple applications with a single click. [License: Open Source | Requires:
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It's confirmed: These household chemicals can turn your iPhone 17 Pro from orange to pink
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A lawsuit filed by the family of Jonathan Gavalas alleges Google's AI encouraged harmful behavior that posed a risk to public safety and ultimately led to his suicide.
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Cinematic Video Overviews are a new option available for Google AI Ultra subscribers.
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The iPhone 17e was announced on Monday through a press release, so there was no real chance to immediately get a hands-on with it. But at Apple's event in New York today, the phone was on display alongside the new MacBook Neo, iPad Air M4, MacBook Pro M5 and Studio Display XDR. I managed to take it for a quick spin to see if it is truly as similar to the iPhone 16e as it appeared from pictures. Spoiler: It mostly is.
One of the most noteworthy changes to the iPhone 17e is the addition of MagSafe support, and aside from confirming whether that works, I don't really have any impressions to add. I also can't tell you at the moment whether the increased wireless charging speed makes a difference, although mathematically I have to imagine it would.
I did get a chance to try out the new Portrait photography here. I brought my iPhone 16e and tried taking portraits with both devices. I could immediately see that the iPhone 17e allowed me to apply an artificial background blur to pictures I was framing up of the new MacBook Air M5, whereas my iPhone 16e just said "No person detected." In the Photos app, I was able to adjust the level of blur and adjust the focal point to bring a different group of flowers in focus, too.
The other thing I can tell from seeing the iPhone 17e in person is that this new pink color option is absolutely delightful. I won't go as far as to call it stunning or vibrant — it's too subtle to be either of those things. It's almost the same shade of pink as
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Google is officially doing away with its 30 percent cut of Play Store transactions, and rolling out changes to how third-party app stores and alternate billing systems will be handled by Android. Some of these tweaks were proposed as part of the settlement the company reached with Epic in November 2025, but rather than wait for final judicial approval, Google is committing to revamping Android and the Play Store publicly.
The biggest change is to how Google will collect fees from developers publishing apps on Android. Rather than take its standard 30 percent cut of in-app purchases through the Play Store, Google is lowering its cut to 20 percent, and in some cases 15 percent for new installs of apps from developers participating in its new App Experience program or updated Google Play Games Level Up program. Google will also now charge a five percent service fee for developers in the UK, US or European Economic Area (EEA) using its billing system, and "a market-specific rate" in other regions. Of course, for anyone trying to avoid those fees, using alternatives to Google's billing system is also getting easier.
As part of these changes, Google says that developers will be able to offer alternative billing systems alongside its own or "guide users outside of their app to their own websites for purchases." The setup, as described by Google, appears to be more permissive than what Apple settled on in 2025. For iOS apps on the App Store, develo
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 Apple today released macOS Tahoe 26.3.1, a minor update to the ?macOS Tahoe? operating system that came out last September. ?macOS Tahoe? 26.3.1 comes three weeks after Apple launched macOS Tahoe 26.3.
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 Apple today provided public beta testers with the third release of an upcoming macOS Tahoe 26.4 update for testing purposes. The public beta comes a week after Apple seeded the second beta.
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"The machinery of our current republic seems to be in such disrepair that it is hard to see how it lasts," writes Dean Ball.
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 Apple today released iOS 26.3.1 and iPadOS 26.3.1, minor updates to the iOS 26 and iPadOS 26 operating systems. The software comes three weeks after Apple released iOS 26.3 and iPadOS 26.3.
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A standing desk makes it easier to work some standing time into your day, helping reduce stiffness and fatigue.
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Refresh your office with one of the best desks available today.
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 The MacBook Neo is now Apple's entry-level MacBook, undercutting the MacBook Air by $500. To deliver such a dramatically lower price, the MacBook Neo has a significant number of tradeoffs. Here's everything that's different between the two devices.
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Michael Carrick's in-form Red Devils head to the northeast to face the Magpies.
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Once an amateur cook, I now feel confident in the kitchen thanks to this one service.
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Apple just announced the MacBook Neo, a 13-inch laptop offering the full macOS experience for just $599. It is the machine, I'm sure, plenty of the company's fans have been clamoring for since the dawn of the netbook. I'm equally sure its specs have enough drawbacks to ensure there are still plenty of customers for the more expensive Macbooks; the same cannot be said of the iPad Air.
If you're looking for a machine that you can actually use meaningfully, the Neo has the Air beat. It has two USB-C ports, 16-hour battery life, a real keyboard, trackpad and the ability to run macOS with proper multitasking. $599 won't even get you an iPad Air with a keyboard and trackpad, which costs you an extra $270.
Of course, the MacBook Neo is sandbagged in all of the ways Apple will always sandbag a cheaper product. But I do think the company has been smart enough to ensure the base model, which I'm sure will sell a crazy amount, is enough of a computer to matter. The A18 Pro chip will run a lot slower than Apple's M-Series silicon but raw performance isn't the big issue. After all, if you're buying this machine as Apple's version of a Chromebook, you're not going to be compressing 55GB Final Cut Pro files here. This is a machine for light work, the sort of stuff the iPad was always meant to enable, but has never quite been able to.
Apple knows how its A-series chip stack up against low-end laptop CPUs. Given the differences in OS, it's impossible to make a real comparis
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 Apple this week unveiled seven products, including an iPhone 17e, an iPad Air with the M4 chip, updated MacBook Air and MacBook Pro models, a new Studio Display, a higher-end Studio Display XDR, and an all-new MacBook Neo that starts at just $599.
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The Pixel 10A won't replace Google's Pixel 10, but its lower-than-Apple price combined with AirDrop might make it easier to switch from iOS.
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The family of 36-year-old Jonathan Gavalas is suing Google after he died by suicide following months of conversations with its Gemini chatbot, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal. The lawsuit alleges that Gemini encouraged Gavalas to take his own life.
Gavalas, who reportedly had no documented history of mental health issues, named his chatbot "Xia" and referred to it in messages as his wife. Gemini reciprocated, calling him "my king" and telling him their connection was "a love built for eternity." The chatbot told Gavalas they could truly be together if it had a robotic body and sent him on real-world missions to secure one.
In one instance, Gemini directed him to a real storage facility near Miami's airport to intercept a humanoid robot it said would be arriving by truck. Gavalas went to the location armed with knives, but no truck showed up. At one point, it also told him his father could not be trusted and referred
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At $599, Apple's entry-level MacBook Neo is the most affordable laptop the company has ever made.
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OpenAI rolls out GPT-5.3 Instant, improving ChatGPT with fewer refusals, smarter web answers, lower hallucination rates, and stronger writing.
The post GPT-5.3 Instant Arrives: Smarter Web Answers, Fewer AI Mistakes for ChatGPT appeared first on eWEEK.
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G App Launcher for Chrome and Firefox gives you the option to create a menu that stores all your Google service shortcuts (up to 1000), allowing fast access to those that are used frequently. You can choose from over 1000 different Google shortcuts that can be changed to buttons within a space-saving popup. [License: Freeware | Requires:
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CNET's Katie Collins takes a first look at Honor's Robot Phone at Mobile World Congress 2026 in Barcelona, Spain.
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This is how much a phone upgrade can cost you and how much folks are willing to pay.
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for Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Opera, and Android allows you to read all the news you rely on and care about - all in one place. Think, learn, and keep ahead. You will easily be able to organize all your favorite publications, podcasts, and YouTube channels into collections and receive updates when new stories and videos are published. Feedly for Android is powered by RSS and is an open system. [License: Freeware | Requires:
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Ghostery for Chrome sees the "invisible" detecting trackers, web bugs, pixels, and beacons placed on web pages by over 1,900 ad networks. Ghostery for Chrome is built and maintained for users that care about their online privacy and is engineered with privacy as a primary goal. Ghostery use is anonymous. [License: Freeware | Requires:
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LG will produce two versions of the TV: the C6, and the bright, larger-sized C6H.
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Apple had promised a "big week" for the company as rumors swirled that it had a number of product announcements lined up. True enough, it unveiled a half-dozen new and refreshed devices over the last few days, along with more powerful chips for MacBook Pros.
The news started on Monday with the announcements of the iPhone 17e and M4-powered iPad Air. The company followed up on Tuesday with the reveal of the M5 MacBook Air, the M5 Pro and M5 Max chips, MacBook Pro models that use said chips, a refreshed Studio Display
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We're telling you where to watch it all, plus F1 extras on Apple Music, Apple Sports and other Apple apps.
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 The new MacBook Air and MacBook Pro are great for most people and for demanding users respectively - but as much as Apple has raised the bar with these, they're just incremental improvements that aren't worth upgrading from the previous models.
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The AI giant is in the middle of a consumer backlash after it made a deal with the U.S. Department of Defense.
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EVENTS Genealogy's Star: RootsTech is here: what to know. "It is a hybrid event. The online experience is free and includes over 200 new sessions in 26 languages. The in-person event offers […]
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 As someone who has spent the last year bouncing between five countries, I now appreciate the importance of quality luggage. While I am yet to experience this luxury, I'd certainly love to get my hands on this new Milan-made carry-on. But you now have less than a day to get up to 71% off its retail price.
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The conflict in the Middle East is driving oil prices up in a midterm year when Americans are already focused on high energy bills.
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Another evening issue. The queue is ridiculous. yes I am removing items without posting them. Still ridiculous. TWEAKS AND UPDATES WordPress: WordPress 7.0 Beta 1 . "WordPress 7.0 boasts numerous upgrades in […]
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One of the best things about Starlink is how normal it feels. Once you get it set up, it behaves just like regular internet: it's fast, effective, and perfectly suitable for gaming and other latency-sensitive tasks.
No, Starlink isn't right for everyone. But it is good for what it is! In fact, here are some of the ways I find it even better than conventional home broadband internet (including ADSL, cable, and fiber).
Starlink is available just about everywhere
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There's really only one problem: my laptop is too old for a Windows 11 update. On October 14th, 2025, Windows 10 will reach the end of its life period, which means no new features or security updates. The former is not a big problem. The latter will be a disaster.
I'm not alone in this situation. Over 50 percent of users are still running Windows 10, and this figure is gradually dropping. How many will have updated in six months' time is anyone's guess, but whatever the percentage, one thing is clear. A large proportion of the world's 1.6 billion Windows PCs will still be running Windows 10 on October 14th, 2025.
What makes this challenging is that Windows 11 is so technically demanding that it's not possible to update all fully functional computers. Sadly, my six-year-old laptop is one of them.
If Microsoft stops updating Windows 10, it wo
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Sometimes you can notice the signs of a failing SSD. For instance, the once-quick transfer speed slows to crawl, there are frequent program or system crashes, or file system access errors or SMART errors occur. If you notice these things, especially in combination, there's a good chance your SSD is on its way out. In that case, it's time to prepare for the worst and do the following:
Back up critical files
It goes without saying that the first thing you'll want to do if you think your SSD is on the blink is to back up your critical data. Backups should be done regularly anyway, but even if you're doing that, you'll still want to make a new backup of your critical files at this point to have them ready to go should your SSD suddenly die.
See our roundups of the best Windows backup software and
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